Date
Address
José Antonio Millán
Location
Collaborate
Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte y Residencia de Estudiantes.
It is a common statement to say that the specialisation of bookstores is a solution to the general offer, which is in danger of being swallowed up by large Internet operators and by the bookstore chains.
Apparently, a statement is certain: recent times have seen a proliferation of specialist bookshops, even in very specific fields. The traditional definition of "specialized library" is one in which at least 60% of the turnover corresponds to books classified in one, two or three subjects. With this approach it is estimated that in Spain a third of the total would fall into this category. The booksellers have come to this type of establishment sometimes as a personal hobby, sometimes by confluence with another project (for example publishing), sometimes in search of a more loyal audience than the general consumer.
Bookstores can be dedicated to thematic niches (crime and crime fiction or fantasy bookstores, to give two examples), or to majors: philosophy, law. They can also appeal to an age range, such as children's literature. They can be at the service of ideological options, such as feminism, anarchism, or LGBTI literature. They can also serve a particular hobby, or a professional sector (which sometimes coincide), such as gastronomy or model airplanes. They can also focus on works of a particular language (in original or translation): for example, Italian literature; or on offer from a particular field, such Latin American bookstores.
If there has been one dominating story in the cultural sector in recent years, it has been the role of "artificial intelligence", which began with the opening of ChatGPT for public experimentation.
Although the term dates back to the 1950's, and over the decades the label has been applied to many different products, artificial intelligence seems to have reached a level of development that will allow their use by many different representatives in the cultural sector. However, at the same time, a sensationalist treatement by the media has blurred the real possibilities and problems of this technology.
The applications that are appearing in this field raise ethical and even legal questions of great importance. The programs that generate works do so by processing vast quantities of pre-existing work, which may be subject to copyright. Generative procedures have the real possibility of presenting bias and errors in their results. When machine earning algorithms are involved in social processes (such as the allocation of aid to the population), these biases can be very harmful.
Of all the fields on which AI can be applied, in this conference, we will focus mainly on machine learning and text generating algorithms, which are used for the full or partial production of works. In the workflow of a publishing company, in the editorial of a newspaper, in didactic preparation, in the translation, generator programmes can be helpful, although of course under close supervision. In addition, the AI can be a useful research tool in linguistic or philological studies.
But at the same time the opacity of generation procedures and the unpredictability of their answers may muddy the relationship of AI procedures with its users. Finally, the frequent attribution of consciousness and intentions to the programs obscures their true capabilities, while magnifying the power of technology.
PARTICIPANTS
9:30 pm / Opening
José Antonio Millán (digital editor)
"Clarifying terms"
10:15 h
María del Mar Sánchez Vera
"AI in education: when the answers reexamine questions"
10:45 h
Carlos Lopezosa
"Artificial intelligence and journalism"
11:15 h
Colloquium
12:00 h
José Francisco Ruiz Casanova
"Translation and editing in the IA"
12:30 h
Elea Giménez Toledo
"Artificial intelligence, Spanish, and science"
13:00 h
Álvaro Cuéllar
"How we found a Lope hidden"
This project has received the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports. General direction of the book, the comic and the reading
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